Indeed, Kim is my favorite of Kiplings works, and the most Indian.
The article is interesting but the end is mistaken. There should not have been a bit of disagreement between Lockwood and Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling certainly had a keen appreciation and affection for India and Indians, Kim is proof of that.
"Oh, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet . . ."
"An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!"
"BY THE old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; . . ."
". . . a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke."
"If . . ."
The images rising from the heart that no artist's hand can draw--it's sure he's the better seed of a Mom and Dad that formed his early soul, eh?